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Planetary Science Missions
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Useful Information

Solar System Exploration: Learn about the people, programs and technology in use or being developed to investigate the planets in our solar system.

• Voyager Project Home Page: Learn about Voyager's encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and beyond.
• Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

• Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Exploration (IMAGE) - NASA's First Mid-size Explorer (MIDEX) mission.
  
• NASA Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) Satellite - NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) Program
  
• Geotail: studying the dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail over a wide range of distance.
  
• Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP)-8: measuring the magnetic fields, plasmas, and energetic charged particles (e.g., cosmic rays) of the Earth's magnetotail.
• Polar Project: Data from both high- and low-altitude perspectives of this active region of geospace.

• Cassini: Background information on Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan.
  
  • Cassini-Huygens Website
  • Jupiter Millennium Flyby Website
  • Cassini Jupiter Science Website
• Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)

The Sun-Earth Connection Program: includes a listing of previous, current, and future missions, latest news updates, and image gallery.

• Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX)
• Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
• The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
• Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE): The TRACE is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to image the solar corona and transition region at high angular and temporal resolution.
• Ulysses: Solar Exploration at High Latitudes Over the Sun's Poles.

NASA's Office of Space Science (OSS) Website

• What is Space Science?

Liftoff to Space Exploration: The Universe: View a three dimensional representation of our solar system, and obtain additional information about the planets and our Sun.